It’s so cool when the sky has a neat morning show for the last day of the work week.
The Moon was edging closer to Jupiter (dot in upper left of frame shown above) Friday morning, and will be at Jupiter’s upper left Saturday morning.
Rise and shine!
Not a big deal, just means the Moon is at its farthest apogee distance this year.
406,232 km away.
Seeing was crapola tonight, thus the fuzzy image above.
Nikon D70 on tripod
ISO 200
1/60
Big fat lens…..
It’s not water and the farm houses and cows in the distance are not upside down in water…….
It’s so hot I’m hallucinating…or maybe it’s just a mirage. Dry and 100 degrees here…..
Happy 4th!
Get it on with your independence!
It was on time(according to Heavens-above.com) but moon light almost washed out seeing it.
It was also naked eye-tough at times, but definitely the wounded satellite I’ve been stalking the past few weeks.
My image is very crappy, but you can barely see the streak going from the lower left to the upper right of the frame.
Vega is the bright star on the lower right, and the head of Draco can be seen on the left as well–albeit messy with noise.
I’ll keep trying.
ISO 800
50 seconds
f/4 Nikon D70 on tripod
thanks to all you Obi-Wans out there for the links and advice.
I have sent the 5000 back to Nikon for repair.
Seems there was a service memo on it, so fingers crossed my little buddy gets repaired.
Thanks again all!!